Development History Where Did She Go? I've been away for a long time. My first try at doing solo game development ended as the story often does...
Thunder Gun Thunder Gun: Steam Update RELEASED Finally, the big STEAM UPDATE (v1.0.3) is here! You can learn more about these changes by reading this blog post that goes more in depth than the changelog.
Thunder Gun Building a Better Thunder Gun The big Thunder Gun: Revenge of the Mutants Steam update (v1.0.3) is complete and will be coming out on September 22nd, 2016! (Click here to see the Steam
Greenlight Greenlit! Persistence? Who Knows After taking part in the now finished LazyGuysBundle and a cumulative 8 months of being on Greenlight across 2 launched Greenlight pages, I received notice from Valve that Thunder Gun:
Thunder Gun Greenlight Experiment If you haven't seen me tweet or Facebook this, here's your chance to know. Thunder Gun has gotten a second Greenlight campaign with a new trailer! Exciting, right? Well, sort
Thunder Gun Redefining Success or Ignoring Failure? If you haven't heard me on twitter, Thunder Gun: Revenge of the Mutants hasn't been doing "well." At the end of 2 weeks after its release, I've sold
Games Thunder Gun: Revenge of the Mutants Buy on Steam Buy on Game Jolt Buy on itch.io Resources and Information Feel free to use and/or share any of these resources (or anything from the site
Thunder Gun Thunder Gun has Release Date! It's official: Thunder Gun: Revenge of the Mutants will be coming out for Windows and Mac OSX through Gamejolt and itch.io on September 3rd! Take a look at the
Design Thunder Gun: RotM in Beta Hey everyone! I've been hard at work on Thunder Gun: Revenge of the Mutants, and I'm proud to say that it's now in closed Beta! It's been sent out to
Thunder Gun Thunder Gun Videos As work on Thunder Gun: Revenge of the Mutants nears Beta, I thought it would be cool to assemble all of the newest TG:RotM videos in one place! I
Development History Magical GameDev Experiences Now, every once in a great while, as a game developer, you'll have what might only be described as an "experience so awesome that you need to tell it to everyone." Lot's of developers, including me, get really excited when their game
Post Mortems Midwest Gaming Classic 2015 On April 12th, I went to the Midwest Gaming Classic! The event was filled with REALLY enthusiastic gamers, and it was the perfect place to test out and stress test
suteF Pages from the Abyss After the recent move to the new Ghost Blog, the old suteF blog is entirely gone! Not only is that a lousy shame, but I also found some really neat
Announcements New Site Launched! Well, it finally happened, didn't it? The old rottentater.com has come back online, and it's been smashed together with the blog that hasn't been updated since LAST APRIL... First
Discussion Podcast - Episode 1 Part of what is so fun about game development is being able to share stories and opinions with other game developers. It's only natural that when you love your vocation that you end up talking about some of it. Enter the good man Isaac
suteF Looking Back: suteF A little over three years(!) have passed since I finished suteF in December of 2010. Many people consider it my most notable project, and I agree with them. I've wanted to do a post-mortem for a while, and here it is. For the sake
Games Works from Learning Games Network Econauts (Released June 2014) Role: Lead Designer and Programmer Progenitor X (Released August 2011) Role: Lead Programmer and Game Designer Virulent (Released March 2011) Role: Programming Intern, Sound and Music
Discussion Earning Your Players' Time Developers often talk about this issue. How do I convince someone that my game is a game they should play? What makes it different or unique from all of the rest? Is it cheap enough to get more players but expensive enough that they
Discussion The Digital Distribution Problem No one will deny that we are entering a new age of distribution of games. Players are no longer expecting that their games be confined to a disk or cartridge that can only be run by a single proprietary device. "Digital" has
Discussion 2014 The Story So Far The way I handle marketing is widely considered to be wrong, if not nonexistent; I feel a good game "sells itself," I have never emailed the press, I don't regularly write blog posts, and I've never written a
Discussion The Bulletromancer - Building a Scene "Wow," you say! "Amazing," you say! That's right; I love making progress updates and what better way than posting a video that even happens to contain a (albeit small) portion of gameplay! So What is This? In The Bulletromancer, Sir
suteF Musical Influences So some of my long time followers may remember some tweets of mine where I explain some of suteF's influences. Probably one of the biggest influences across all of my works is music — specifically Prog Rock. It should be said that I never really
suteF Game Universes Introduction Hello. I am T. Lauterbach, also known as rotten_tater, one of those so-called "independent game developers." You may remember me from such titles as: suteF, Sutef, and another called "sute F." But before I was a surrealistic Fetus
Screenshots Announcing: The Bulletromancer For those of you who have been following me on Twitter, you may already know a little about my newest game project, The Bulletromancer! (Prototype Images, these do not represent "end-product") Visit The Bulletromancer webpage! The Bulletromancer is a Bullet Hell Shmup
Screenshots Prototypes - Jack Action and The Duck Assault This is part two of a three part series on my recent prototypes, also including Morbid Grid and a yet unfinished game currently called Proto2. (View Part One) SO, WHAT IS JACK ACTION & THE DUCK ASSAULT? Seriously? A game about punching and DROP-KNEEING
